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On Tuesday 15 January 2008 21:26, CHRISTOPHER BERRY wrote: > Glad to see PCLinuxOS getting some praise - I'm an old boy who has found it > far and away the most USER-FRIENDLY Linux OS and we are NOT going to get > converts to the cause like me if the OSs need a lot of technical expertise. > Great stuff, > Grandad Bee. > P.S. Thanks for all the info re my Belkin USb adapter. > > george <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:21, David Bell wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:17, viv wrote: > > > We have tried countless Linux distros on our little sub notebook and > > > they all run very slowly (or not at all). PCLinuxOS 2007 (as > > > recommended to me by Grandpa B at the Penzance event) is now installed > > > and running very well on it. I installed it on our big laptop > > > previously and must say that I am very impressed with it to the extent > > > that it may woo me away from Kubuntu. Thanks Grandpa B ! > > > > I found 2 problems with it. The first was that on my box GRUB recognised > > the (regretable) existence of XP - but not Etch. Secondly, KMail seemed > > unstable when auto and manually checking more than one POP account and > > often froze. Being a cold wet day with nothing else to do, three installs > > plus updates didn't cure anything. > > > > Not complaining, as I know I can always rely on either "good ol' Etch" or > > ; Kbuntu on my MacBook instead :) > > > > -- > > W. Devon > > ----------- > > A GNU/Linux user > > I've just installed PCLOS 2008 on an 850MHz AMD, 375Mb RAM, 17 Gb hard > drive that I'm giving to a friend and it runs very well. But it doesn't > have Kmail or Kontact on it's repositories which may be because of the > instability mentioned. Thunderbird seems OK so I think I'll leave it for > now. > > George I did a live install, set up the network, reloaded the repository in Symantic, did a "Find"and KMail/Kontact are available. -- W. Devon ----------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html